Government Cheese: They’ll make us all beggars ‘cause we’re easy to please

From the new site, Compact, “The Great Reset is Real”. Excerpt:

Much has been made of the World Economic Forum, its cartoonishly villainous chairman, Klaus Schwab, and the infiltration of various governments through its “Young Global Leaders” program. The focus on this particular group of actors is useful for illustrating how coalitions of financiers, corporations, and unaccountable nongovernmental organizations shape global policies. Schwab’s pet slogans—“the Great Reset,” “the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” “You will own nothing, and you will be happy”—are now a sort of shorthand for the effort to impoverish the world population and technologically expand elites’ control.

This agenda, however, doesn’t need to be tied to one particular organization or group of leaders. Elites’ desire to subjugate the rest of the world isn’t a “conspiracy theory,” but a pattern of class conflict evident from world history. The outcome of this conflict, now raging across a tangible battlefield as well as a digital one, will determine the shape of the world to come.

As mainstream outlets signal that it is acceptable and even funny to criticize Covid policies, the question arises: Why is there no public reckoning over the astounding failure and massive harms of these measures? The answer is that these policies had little to do with the virus in the first place. Now that the Covid narrative has become a liability for elites, the pandemic is “ending,” but the “reset” agenda underlying the pandemic response remains very much in play. Unless it is met with defiance, this agenda will be a decades-long process—one that began with lockdowns and vaccine passports and will continue with the proliferation of digital ID systems and central-bank digital currencies.

… We have been encouraged to view the phenomena of the past two years as the natural outcomes of a pandemic, but most were actually part of a broader scheme to undermine the middle and working classes, normalize “papers, please” societies, and end the fiat currency system as we know it.

In 2019, central bankers were determined to “rethink” the global economy, as a Financial Times story summarized at the time. Covid was blamed for a global financial crisis in 2020, but this crisis was already in motion in 2019 when a meltdown in the market for short-term loans between banks prompted the Federal Reserve to inject hundreds of billions of dollars into the financial system to stave off a full-blown liquidity catastrophe. Lockdowns imposed in March 2020 conveniently bolstered financial assets and monopolistic giants at the expense of taxpayers and small businesses; Amazon’s profits soared, while nearly 40 percent of American small businesses went under by year’s end.

During this same period, investment firms like BlackRock have been buying entire neighborhoods of single-family homes, a move with the potential to price thousands of families out of entry-level real estate. This is significant, because home ownership, already trending downward, was once the engine of middle-class prosperity, allowing families to consolidate and pass on wealth.

Good as far as it goes, but the author leaves other, perhaps related resets: the Greens Movement, which intends to impoverish Americans and make them dependent on the government for food, heat, housing and transportation, and the Marxist goal to abolish the family and create a state-controlled, amorphous population in its stead. The sexualization of children is just one tiny part of that program.

Engels argued that monogamy was based around private property, and that once all property was shared, there would be a brand new model of marriage based purely on “sexual love.” He boasted that in a communist society, private property would become public, housework would become professionalized, and there would be no need to worry about looking after children since childcare and education would be the responsibility of the state. He wrote: “This removes all the anxiety about the ‘consequences,’ which today is the most essential social — moral as well as economic — factor that prevents a girl from giving herself completely to the man she loves. Will not that suffice to bring about the gradual growth of unconstrained sexual intercourse and with it a more tolerant public opinion in regard to a maiden’s honor and a woman’s shame?” [8]